unfortunate
adj. 不幸的；令人遗憾的；不成功的
adj.
不幸的，倒霉的；不吉利的；不成功的；可惜的，可叹的
n.
不幸的人；
变形
复数：unfortunates
英英释义
unfortunate[ ,ʌn'fɔ:tʃənət ]
n.a person who suffers misfortune
同义词：unfortunate person
adj.
not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune
"an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned"
not auspicious; boding ill
同义词：inauspicious
unsuitable or regrettable
"an unfortunate choice of words"; "an unfortunate speech"
同近义词辨析
unhappy, unfortunate, disastrous, unlucky这组词都有“不幸的”的意思，其区别是：
unhappy多用于表示心理状态，指由于不满意或遇到一般性倒霉事而感到不愉快。
unfortunate语气较强，多指因命运不佳，意外不幸或事业失败、生活处于困境等而感到不幸。
disastrous着重不可避免和后果严重。
unlucky指因缺少或一时无机遇，虽作了努力，但事不从心，感到失意。
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
The unfortunate man shot himself afterwards.
那个不幸的男人后来开枪自杀了。
This is unfortunate but this has happened.
这是令人遗憾的事情，但事情确实发生了。
His indifference to future needs is unfortunate.
他对未来的需要漠不关心真令人遗憾。
用作名词(n.)
The poor unfortunate had starved to death.
这个可怜的倒霉蛋是饿死的。
权威例句
Invasional meltdown 6 years later: important phenomenon, unfortunate metaphor, or both?On mathematics as sense-making: An informal attack on the unfortunate divorce of formal and informal mathematics.
Geographic favoritism in liver transplantation--unfortunate or unfair?
The Struggle to Define Privacy Rights and Liabilities in a Digital World and the Unfortunate Role of Constitutional Standing
Sun Myung Moon and the Unfortunate Return of the Prodigal Son: http://bit.ly/8XRdjy
Assisted reproduction and thyroid autoimmunity: an unfortunate combination?
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Fluid compositions containing polyhydroxy fatty acid amides
The Force-Restore Model for Surface Temperature and Its Generalization
A theory of diagnosis from first principles
unfortunate (adj.)
mid-15c., "unlucky," from un- (1) "not" + fortunate (adj.). Infortunate in same sense is from late 14c. (along with a verb infortune "to render unhappy"). In late 18c.-early 19c., unfortunate woman was a polite way to say "prostitute." The noun meaning "one who is not fortunate" is recorded from 1630s.
1. This is unfortunate, but there is no good alternative for contiguous selection.
这是令人遗憾的，但对于连续选择又没有其他好的替代方法。
-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓
2. He unleashed a torrent of abuse againstthe unfortunate shop assistant.
他对那倒霉的店员骂不绝口.
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
3. Some unfortunate artifacts of implementation-model thinking prevent people from working in the way they find most natural.
有些按照实现模型设计的产品更加不幸，采用了完全背离人类的最自然的方式。
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4. Also notice the unfortunate use of horizontal scrollbars in all list fields.
不过，注意所有的列表域遗憾地使用了水平滚动条。
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5. The ubiquity of scrollbars has unfortunately resulted in some unfortunate misuse. Most significant here is their shortcomings in navigating time.
无处不在的滚动条很不幸地被滥用了，最显著的缺点在于它无法用于在时间轴上导航。
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6. It was unfortunate that this accident should happen.
这场事故意外发生了，真不幸。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
7. A quarrel between good friends is a very unfortunate thing.
好朋友之间吵架是很不幸的事。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
8. Although this approach is unfortunate from an interaction perspective, it is a de facto standard, and there is considerable resistance to improving it.
虽然从交互的角度看，这种方法很不合适。 但事实上情况就是这样的，要改进它存在着很多阻力。
-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓
9. Ultimately, the use of folders or directories as a primary retrieval mechanism requires that users know where an item has been stored in order to locate it. This is unfortunate, since digital systems are capable of providing us with significantly better methods of finding information than those physically possible using mechanical systems.
所以作为主要检索机制的文件夹或者目录，最终需要使用者知道一个物品到底放在哪个位置，才可以找到它。 这就很不幸了，按道理讲，和各种各样的物理世界中的机械系统相比，数字世界应该有能力提供给我们更加优越的查找信息的手段，我们下面要谈的是如何提高这种检索能力。
-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓
10. Adding the Not Permitted symbol to cursor hinting is an unfortunate combination of two weak idioms and should be avoided, regardless of what the Microsoft style guide says.
无论微软的风格指南如何解释，把表示禁止的符号添加到光标暗示中是这两种较差习惯用法的糟糕组合，应该避免使用。
-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓
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